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This article proposes an analytical framework regarding the geography of innovation by Dedicated Biotechnology Firms …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new insights about the dynamic of the geography of knowledge collaborations and … highlights the potential roles in the geography of collaborations of both, the geography of resources and the history of …, in a second part, two complementary econometric tests. Three important results are revealing : the geography of …
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Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new challenges for data collection and analysis. So far,...
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we show that differences in biogeographic initial conditions and in geography largely account for the different timings … nations today. The effects of biogeography and geography on the wealth of nations are partly mediated by the quality of …
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In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as … well as a large body of older and newer theoretical works on the social impacts of geography. It is argued that the most …
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In this comment on AJR (2001), we argue that a bundling of all former colonies into one ‘colonial’ theory of comparative development is problematic for several reasons. During the mercantilist wave of mainly Latin American colonization between 1500-1830, strong capitalist institutions were...
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reorientation away from physical geography and back to the human and social geography that determines if rebellion is …
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Civil wars show substantial variation in where they are fought. One dimension of this variation is the proximity of fighting to the capital city. While some wars are fought in the periphery, others devastate capital cities, often for months, or years, on end. What explains this? This article...
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This paper investigates how geography affects the performance of local public transport firms in Italy. Using data on …
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roots and bearers, their institutional academic bases within geography, economics, sociology, planning, and other fields …
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